Book, Chapter

 1    Int       |           from which town, in its ancient and its modern style, Bacon
 2      1, Int  |    veneration was ascribed to the ancient Hermes: the power and fortune
 3      1, II   |        times may sort better with ancient examples than with those
 4      1, III  | schoolmasters and tutors; yet the ancient wisdom of the best times
 5      1, III  |           which excellent part of ancient discipline hath been in
 6      1, III  |         truth and reason. And the ancient custom was to dedicate them
 7      1, IV   |         present time. So that the ancient authors, both in divinity
 8      1, IV   |      concurring—the admiration of ancient authors, the hate of the
 9      1, V    |        mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is
10      1, V    |          times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we
11      1, V    |        not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a
12      1, VI   |          know was one of the most ancient schools of the world: for
13      1, VI   |          we find that many of the ancient bishops and fathers of the
14      1, VII  |          or of science, modern or ancient, divinity or humanity—and
15      1, VII  |           of purple, but kept the ancient habit of Macedon, of black. “
16      2, Int  |       where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue,
17      2, Int  |        the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other
18      2, Int  |        matter, which though it be ancient and general, yet I hold
19      2, II   |           part of time, have more ancient to them histories which
20      2, II   |         being now reunited in the ancient mother name of Britain,
21      2, II   |          and doth well enrich the ancient fiction. For he feigneth
22      2, II   |           actions; for princes in ancient time had, upon point of
23      2, II   |       ultra, in precedence of the ancient non ultra, and imitabile
24      2, II   |      fulmen, in precedence of the ancient non imitabile fulmen,~“Demens
25      2, IV   |           much more in use in the ancient times, as by the fables
26      2, IV   |      framed; for I find it was an ancient vanity in Chrysippus, that
27      2, IV   |          upon the fictions of the ancient poets; but yet that all
28      2, VII  |            taken according to the ancient acception, purged from vanity
29      2, VII  |        notion may differ from the ancient, yet I am studious to keep
30      2, VII  |           am studious to keep the ancient terms. For hoping well to
31      2, VII  |       confound and extinguish all ancient wisdom; insomuch as he never
32      2, VII  |           nameth or mentioneth an ancient author or opinion, but to
33      2, VII  |          therefore, to retain the ancient terms, though I sometimes
34      2, VIII |          I have differed from the ancient and received doctrines,
35      2, IX   |           knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which
36      2, X    |    ascending a little higher: the ancient opinion that man was microcosmus—
37      2, X    |         the discontinuance of the ancient and serious diligence of
38      2, XIII |        old store;” and we see the ancient writers of rhetoric do give
39      2, XIV  |          elegantly expoundeth the ancient fable of Atlas (that stood
40      2, XVI  |          hieroglyphics (things of ancient use and embraced chiefly
41      2, XVI  |        Egyptians, one of the most ancient nations), they are but as
42      2, XVI  |          do tie themselves to the ancient measures, yet in modern
43      2, XVII |     things that, according to the ancient fables, “the most precious
44      2, XVIII|     things that, according to the ancient fables, “the most precious
45      2, XX   |   application in some of the most ancient and reverend philosophers
46      2, XXII |        the affections. For as the ancient politiques in popular estates
47      2, XXII |       books and discourses of the ancient writers (whereby they have
48      2, XXII |         and like as we read of an ancient parable of the two gates
49      2, XXIII|     wisdom it seemeth some of the ancient Romans in the saddest and
50      2, XXIII|        extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the
51      2, XXIII|         in the wisdom of the more ancient times; that as men found
52      2, XXIII|         precept, according to the ancient opinion, that the sinews
53      2, XXIII|       following the wisdom in the ancient fable of the two frogs,
54      2, XXIII|         of this knowledge is that ancient precept of Bias, construed
55      2, XXIII|      certificate which one of the ancient philosophers aspired unto;
56      2, XXIII|     wisdom it seemeth some of the ancient Romans in the saddest and
57      2, XXIII|        extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the
58      2, XXIII|         in the wisdom of the more ancient times; that as men found
59      2, XXIII|         precept, according to the ancient opinion, that the sinews
60      2, XXIII|       following the wisdom in the ancient fable of the two frogs,
61      2, XXIII|         of this knowledge is that ancient precept of Bias, construed
62      2, XXIII|      certificate which one of the ancient philosophers aspired unto;
63      2, XXV  |           law exceed those of the ancient jurisconsults, of which